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... hand , and said , " Show me a sight That can give a divinity sounder delight , Or that earth should more prize from its core to the poles , Than the self - improved morals of elegant souls . Repentant I speak it - though when I was wild 21.
... hand , and said , " Show me a sight That can give a divinity sounder delight , Or that earth should more prize from its core to the poles , Than the self - improved morals of elegant souls . Repentant I speak it - though when I was wild 21.
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... hand , When all on a sudden , there rose on the stairs A noise as of persons with singular airs ; You'd have thought ' twas the bishops or judges a coming , Or whole court of aldermen hawing and humming , Or Abbot , at least , with his ...
... hand , When all on a sudden , there rose on the stairs A noise as of persons with singular airs ; You'd have thought ' twas the bishops or judges a coming , Or whole court of aldermen hawing and humming , Or Abbot , at least , with his ...
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... eleven , When Phoebus shook hands , and departed for heaven ; " For poets , " he said , " who would cherish their powers , And hop'd to be deathless , must keep to good hours . " ( 28 ) So off he betook him the way that he came 28.
... eleven , When Phoebus shook hands , and departed for heaven ; " For poets , " he said , " who would cherish their powers , And hop'd to be deathless , must keep to good hours . " ( 28 ) So off he betook him the way that he came 28.
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... hand in Buckingham's vulgar Essay on Satire , he asks in a note on that passage To tell men freely of their foulest faults , To laugh at their vain deeds and vainer thoughts , " Would Dryden have pardoned such a rhyme ? " . It would ...
... hand in Buckingham's vulgar Essay on Satire , he asks in a note on that passage To tell men freely of their foulest faults , To laugh at their vain deeds and vainer thoughts , " Would Dryden have pardoned such a rhyme ? " . It would ...
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... hand . We must study where Shakspeare studied - in the fields , in the heavens - in the heart and fortunes of man ; -and he , and the other great poets , should be our read- ing out of school hours . ( 9 ) So saying , he rang , to 57.
... hand . We must study where Shakspeare studied - in the fields , in the heavens - in the heart and fortunes of man ; -and he , and the other great poets , should be our read- ing out of school hours . ( 9 ) So saying , he rang , to 57.
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